Mindfulness for Kids – Gratitude Flowers

This playful mindfulness activity is similar to the Gratitude Tree, but instead of trees, you’ll create simple fun flowers.

If you’re a teacher then the kids will love it. You can design a beautiful garden full of happy flowers and help the kids nurture gratitude and joy as you build it.

Spend some time talking about things you’re grateful for as you create your flowers. With younger kids you may want to start by explaining gratitude and giving them some examples.

My son Anton says that the gratitude flowers grow when you give them love and joy :) Last night we slept with the flowers in our family bed. And we talked with them ( the flowers ) about all the good stuff in our lives. The flowers giggled and sighed blissfully… and grew bigger. That’s what my son says anyway :)

The gratitude flowers activity teaches kids to:

appreciate the small things in life,

be grateful for everything they have,

be mindful of the things that are going right in their lives

and the people they hold closest to their hearts.

Here’s the gratitude garden we made at home.

You can keep it simple and just do the flowers and maybe pin them on a wall or you can go crazy and build a full scene if you want to :) The sky’s the limit! Have fun :)

Decreases stress and anxietyIncreases happinessMakes us more resilientImproves sleepReduces materialismMakes us more socially intelligentStrengthens relationshipsMakes us kinderAnd even makes us more likely to feel love.

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Chris Bergstrom is
a bestselling mindfulness author, the founder of BlissfulKids.com, a
blog dedicated to children’s mindfulness, and a dad who is thrilled to
practice mindfulness with his son. He is a certified mindfulness
facilitator and trained to teach mindfulness to students in K-12. He’s
also known as “the dad who tried 200+ mindfulness activities” and has
taught meditation for more than 15 years.